New Windows 10 screen clipping tool supports multi-screen captures

Microsoft’s watcher WalkingCat recently revealed that the company is working on a new feature that will be available in the coming weeks.

Initially, the leaker had suggested that it would be hidden in build Windows 10 build 17627, which was reiterated by fellow watchers, who intimated that a new UWP clipping experience was also being worked on.

In a tweet posted Thursday evening, WalkingCat, who discovered the resources in the Windows 10 RS5 build, said the new feature should be complete in the 17634 build.

A new Settings page found in the RS5 build reveals more details of the feature, which suggests that it may work either in Automatic or Manual Mode. In the former, everything you copy will be automatically synced, while the latter offers the targeted devices to paste the clipping to.

With the new clipping experience, users can draw any shape on the screen to create a screen snip, and copy it to their clipboard. However, users with multiple screens will only be allowed to clip one screen only, or all screens simultaneously.

It also lets users capture their ‘Left Screen, Right Screen, or Both Screens’, all of which aren’t available with current Microsoft devices on the market.

The feature’s underpinnings are already being seen in Microsoft apps such as Swiftkey and Launcher, on which it would rely to deliver the data to your device. Ultimately, this would ease workflow as it connects your phone and PC together.

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